Channel Ten now taking programming direction from the blogosphereChannel Ten has decided to show the US version of The Office in an earlier timeslot due to pressure from bloggers, according to its new promos, which claim: “You blogged. We listened.”
Television programming
Summer in November at the ABC: it just shouldn’t happen
Mark Scott has the well-supported ambition of making the ABC into something more than just a national broadcaster. It is starting to happen in some bits, but in others it resembles a sheltered workshop. Part-time current affairs is no longer good enough.
TV’s night of nights: live reheat consumes MasterChef
Never mind the ratings and the wave of happy, live-light-ent nostalgia, Hey Hey has no hope of hanging around: PBL simply can’t afford it.
SBS sharpen the axe
SBS is chopping and changing its programs with all the trigger-happy reactiveness of a commercial network, says TV Tonight. If it’s not careful, the station may end up accidently giving itself some nasty cuts in the process.
Optus accidently spills new Pay TV channel details online
Optus has accidentally revealed details of the new Pay TV channels that will be launched later this year, including five new movie channels and one dedicated entirely to makeovers (no, really). The leaked info was quickly removed, but Media Spy has it all saved.
Big Brother dying across the globe
Perhaps the most iconic of all reality television programs, Big Brother, is being axed around the world, as life for broadcasters and marketers gets rougher and losses mount.
Plus-size TV programming the latest fad diet
TV networks have suddenly discovered that “fat sells” and are flaunting it with shows like Dance Your Ass Off and More to Love. But what does it actually mean for larger women’s empowerment? asks Kate Harding.
How Channel Nine fudged their chance to grab MasterChef
In the annals of Australian TV there are a few stories about networks rejecting programs that other networks subsequently picked up and made a hit — but this has to be the biggest doozie…
Nine dances its ratings away
The Nine Network continues to give Australian TV viewers turkeys — and it’s not even Christmas yet.
Nine Go!es for the yoof
Nine has announced their new multichannel, Go!, with a line-up of shows that could pose a formidable threat to Ten’s teen demographic.
Nine set to dance its ass off
What would you get if you crossed The Biggest Loser with So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing With The Stars, the base motives of an American reality TV producer, and a desperate Australian TV network? Nine’s new show Dance Your Ass Off.
Nine gets behind Little Britain — but not too much, and about five years too late
It was a slightly prissy press release from the Nine Network that trumpeted that they will soon be airing Little Britain, after it has been to air at least twice on the ABC and countless times on Foxtel.
ABC heads East into TV’s Death Valley
The second series of East of Everything is being quietly tucked away on a Saturday night, with the sincere hope in the ABC that no-one will notice it. Glenn Dyer did.
No sex, please — we’re the BBC
The BBC usually reserve most of their smuttiest and sweariest content for after 9pm — but now they’re rethinking whether to broadcast it at all, following a survey that found many viewers were unhappy with the public broadcaster’s declining moral standards.
PBS exorcises religious programming
US public broadcaster PBS have decided to ban their stations from airing any new religious TV programming, although they will allow religious programs that are already airing to continue.
Seven loses it over Sunday Night
Seven has handed bragging rights to Nine about how another one has bitten the dust by shelving Sunday Night for three months to make way for Dancing With the Stars, says Glenn Dyer.
Trouble in Paradise for Nine programming
How will Getaway survive being scheduled before Nine’s new show about holidays-gone-wrong?
The networks’ latest lineup is all about fantasy
Doctors and a bit of fantasy dominate the programs picked up by Australia’s three commercial networks for later in the year and 2010.
TV09: ABC spins soap, Ten goes for the hip pocket
Be afraid, be very afraid for TV in 2009, writes Glenn Dyer.
The net turns TV programming on its head
You can call it the democratisation of TV programming. Channel Seven will screen Prison Break tonight and Heroes in the coming weeks - almost at the exact same time as the programs are aired in the US.
